Drink your way to health? When the chosen drink is tea, it’s quite possible! Aging-related
skeletal pain responds nicely
to muscle and joint boosters like those in green tea. Back And Neck Care Center has
nutritional tips like drinking green tea to our Severna Park
chiropractic patients.
AGING-RELATED SKELETAL, CARTILAGE, AND JOINT DISEASES
Skeletal
risks like disc height loss and changes like the two joint and muscle diseases
called osteoarthritis and sarcopenia come with aging. A new
study described how height loss and vertebral fractures in
postmenopausal women were linked. The researchers decided
that age rather than the height loss was suggested to be the better
method of determining vertebral
fracture risk. (1) Spinal osteoarthritis was associated with
stature loss in postmenopausal women, a situation known
to decrease quality of life. (2) Cartilage is the victim
of these
diseases’ inflammatory and degenerative processes. Sarcopenia’s loss of strength and
muscle mass necessitates attention to quantity and quality
of skeletal muscle mass which is where where green tea comes
into play. Green tea contains catechins that foster
healthy joints and skeletal muscle by reducing inflammatory
mediators. (3) Back And Neck Care Center hopes you may enjoy
some beneficial green tea!
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS
Green tea comes in a variety of
forms. Another new article writes
that knee osteoarthritis patients were helped by a combination
of curcuminoids, collagen and green tea extract which were found to inhibit inflammation.
The researchers suggested that natural ingredients have
a rational role in the management of osteoarthritis. (4) Another
natural option: spearmint tea! A study of how spearmint teas affected
knee osteoarthritis found that a commercial spearmint tea bettered
stiffness and physical disability while a spearmint tea brewed from a high-rosmarinic
acid (high-rosA) variety significantly reduced pain. (5) Rosmarinic
acid is taken from the woody, perennial herb, rosemary. it’s a polyphenolic compound with antioxidant properties. Polyphenols are reported to be
anti-cancer, anti-tumor cell proliferation, anti-apoptosis (cell death),
anti-metastasis, and anti-inflammatory. Rosmarinic acid is found in plant
species like the mint. (6) Back And Neck Care Center is on the lookout for
some high-rosA spearmint tea to add to the Severna Park chiropractic
treatment plan.
Severna Park CHIROPRACTIC CARE
For degenerative skeletal diseases, Severna Park chiropractic
care at Back And Neck Care Center is gently relieving. Together with nutrition, exercise, and stress-reduction, Back And Neck Care Center’s use of
Cox Technic benefits spine pain conditions.
CONTACT Back And Neck Care Center
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Peter Meyer on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
describes The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management
integration of cervical spine disc herniation.
Schedule your Severna Park chiropractic
appointment now. Schedule a tea party soon, too, to drink your
way to potentially better knees afflicted with osteoarthritis
and healthier skeletal and joint systems.